The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21
SPARKS STRIKES BACK.
At Neal Dow and Delivers Some Lusty
Strokes IN Tender Place.
EsTILL SPRINGS, July Is

EsTILL SPRINGS, July Is.
EDITOR CIrIzEN:-In your paper |
of July L th inst, is another letter
from Gen. Neal Dow in which he
says ''Now why cannot the senator
(me) abstain from saying what is
not true. l do not charge him with
intentional falsehood, but what he
says is false all the same: He says:
Gen. Neal Dow attributes the failure
of prohibition in Maine to the CONN.,
vance of the republican party in that
state and he recalls with bitterness the
fact that Mr.. Blaine refused to vote on
the question"
Now, Mr.. Editor, / never said
any such thing. | said in my com
munication that / copied this from
the Philadelphia Record. 1t was
the Record that said this, and if it
is false the Philadelphia Record
told the falsehood and not me. l
never saw it denied anywhere and |
had right to use it. Gen. Dow
continuing says:
1 never attributed the failure of pro-
hibition in Maine to the republican par
typ
Well, let us see how that is. ]
now copy from the N. Y. Tribune
of date September 18th, 1886. Gen.
Dow said:
| sit doesn't matter what they are in
fluenced by. The republican party will
not put down the rum traffic, and we
mean to make an end of the
republican party. When the republic
can party sails at the next presidential
election, as it will fail, there will be an
end of the republican party. The re-
publican party is between us and the
grog shops and it will get hit badly
We say to it: Get out of the way or
you will get hurt"
Again:
THE democratic party of New York
is not any more bound up by grOg shops
than the republican party of Maine, MOI
is the city OF New York any more ruled
by grog shops than the republican par
ty of Maine and you can put that in the
Tribune for me. MIR. Blaine says tina
l am ungrateful, 1t was only when
found the republican advocacy OF pro-
hibition cheat and sham that
turned my back on it."
1t seems to me, Mr.. Editor, thi.
is pretty conclusive that Neal Dow
/ attributed the failure of prohihl-
ton in Maine to the republican
party. But Gen. Dow says also il
his letter to you:
"Prohibition has never failed in Main
q and have never said anything incon
sistent with that"
Well, let us see what Gen. Do,
! said in that interview in the n. Y
+ Tribune of Sept. II, 1886:
4 Correspondent-"General,d do you nc
. fear that should the democrats com
into power, three-fourths of them be
ing opposed to the law, they would +,
| peal it, as the constitutional prOyisiO
twould amount to nothing without
statutes"
q Gen. Dow, (vebemently)--" sil
Prohibition is safer to-day in the hand
: of the democrats than with the reput
licans. The publicans have had i
c enforcement for all these years, al
there is not city or town in Mair
y where the law isn't entirely ignores
= There is nothing in the courts of Ne
y York more shocking and painful tia
u in the courts of Maine on this subjec
There is the superior court OF Cumbe
land county in which is Portland Whe
,r live. The judge CT it, Mr.. Boney, is q
honorable man and personal fr.er
IL e and ha iS q III ihjtjNnict hJ4t
) all that his court absolutely nullifi
the law. Now, in the name of all til
n is decent, how IS it that Judge Bone
II permits lis court TO be used 10 MULTI
- the law? The law says that these lay
> breakers shall pay.a fine of 500 al
; costs and 60 to jail for six month
= Judge Boney says that they shall u
pay 500 fine, and shall not go to ia
i He takes the law in his own hand
in That is the way the law is used all ov
- the state"
Now, MIR. Editor, ii this IS NJ
il saying that prohibition is failul
70 in Maine, what does Gen. Dow sa,
| suppose he will now deny eve
: having such an interview with ii
ofi n. Y. Tribune man and that I'll
= Tribune man told q falsehood.
o. was not present when this intervie
"a took place, but | believe it did tax
place and Gen. Dow said just VIII
10 the reporter reports him saying.
don't want to misrepresent Ge-
I'll Dow, and will not do so if l kno
or it, but the real truth is Gen. Do
\ has made 80 many contradlctol
statements about Prohibition
ID Maine that l actually feel sorry f
i, him, and would if ! could he
4 him out of the difficulty, but that
something no man can do success
10 fully with ell of Neal Dow's var
% Gus, variegated statements before tt
ht world about prohibition. I ho
Gen. Dow will see this time tn
oil very little of this letter, like t
in other one, ig from me, but copi
from the n. 7. Tribune OF SCI
-. 18th, 1886. But the idea of judi
= Boney being a gentleman and pr
. hibitionist and a friend of &c
Dow's and 9 sworn officer, sworn
in support the constitution and enfor
ur the laws, land acting at Dow says
t does, must bring a broad grin
ee the faces Of all who read this.
erI J. W, SPARKS.